Wish: %L and %R in start menu command line arguments

[magog]

In addition to the source and target codes (%P, %T), I'd like to see codes for left and right (maybe %L and %R)?

I've just started launching another two-panel app from tcmd (an advanced directory synchronization tool), and I'd like to match up its left and right panels to that of Tcmd (regardless of which panel is currently active)

Currently there are:

%P source path
%N source file
%T target path
%M target file

Maybe there could also be:

%L left path
%R right path
%A left filename
%B right filename

But this starts to get cumbersome to duplicate all the options in left and right instead of source and target.

How about instead there's a special code (%A) to indicate that all the source and target codes should act as if the left panel is the source?


Michael

[Sheepdog]

In addition to the source and target codes (%P, %T), I'd like to see codes for left and right (maybe %L and %R)?

Mybe you could use cm_focusleft before launch your synch-tool? Possibly with Aezays script editor ?

In my opinion your request is so special that it's to put at the end of the 'TC wish list' - if it's not very easy to implement.

sheepdog

[magog]

Mybe you could use cm_focusleft before launch your synch-tool? Possibly with Aezays script editor ?

That's a great idea - thanks!

In my opinion your request is so special that it's to put at the end of the 'TC wish list' - if it's not very easy to implement.

Well it might be easy or it might be hard. Don't know which.

Is the official wishlist published anywhere? I might feel the same as you if I knew what other features and/or wishes are in the pipeline.

Michael

[Sheepdog]

Well it might be easy or it might be hard. Don't know which.

Is the official wishlist published anywhere? I might feel the same as you if I knew what other features and/or wishes are in the pipeline.

Michael

No there is no official one.
But if you feed the search with 'search for keywords: wish'
And 'search for Author:ghisler(Author)' you will get 28 threads where @ghisler mentioned this wish list.

Otherwise if you read the forum intensive you will find other requests that seem more urgent than yours. (And wait for pretty long time for realization.)

sheepdog

[robinsiebler]

Something definitely needs to be done to address this. I have tried using lst2str to address this deficiency, but it's quite painful to get it to work. Here are 3 examples that I experience quite frequently:

1. I want to call an external file comparision util and both files that I want to compare are in the right pane.
2. I want to call an external file comparision util and both files that I want to compare are in the left pane.
3. I want to call an external file comparision util and 1 file is in each pane.

In order to use lst2str, I have to have 3 different commands to deal with this situation. There really needs to be an elegant internal solution.